Author Topic: Smoking: Another debate that's over. (Read 3759 times)

Bronk · « **Reply #30 on:** June 28, 2006, 04:15:42 PM »

Here in RI they have a nice exception for the smoking ban.
The 2 gambling establishments that the state gets large amounts of $$ from.

Kinda like why they don't make cigs illegal.
Remember it's only bad for you not the state.

Bronk

Mustaine · « **Reply #31 on:** June 28, 2006, 04:20:07 PM »

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Originally posted by BlueJ1
I can avoid a drunk driver when Im eating a fish fry alot easier then smoke.

so go eat your fish fry at your voluntary non-smoking estabilshment, and i'll go have mine at my local smoking allowed estabilshment.

wtf is so hard about that concept???

you want to come into my place, you live with it. you don't have the "right" to force you will upon anyone you wish. i want to try the fish at your place i have to not smoke while there.

i think alot of you non-smokers think people like me want to be allowed to light up wherever and whenever we want. NO. i want the business owner to have the right to choose if smoking should or should not be allowed. that is all. straight, to the point, simple. that's it.

xrtoronto · « **Reply #32 on:** June 28, 2006, 04:20:35 PM »

Actually Bronk I never thought about our casinos here...and I just checked...we also allow smoking in them!!!

(guess I shouldn't be surprised, considering the $$$)

source

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #33 on:** June 28, 2006, 04:20:42 PM »

Casinos around here are on indian territory. Therefore allowed to ignore the smoking ban.

Gh0stFT · « **Reply #34 on:** June 28, 2006, 04:24:27 PM »

good thing is, modern people just realize how dangerous this crap is,
i say modern people not left or right. Smokers become extinct, they die faster, smokers are a leftover stinking (mainly from mouth) Dinosaurs from the old millenium.

Mustaine · « **Reply #35 on:** June 28, 2006, 04:25:24 PM »

in case you didn't know.... most casinos (non-Vegas ones) are Native American run, and the casino property is considered part of their reservation territory. they are exempt from most federal and state laws regarding things like this.

talking about msmoking in a casino is a completely different discussion because of this fact. you can not compare a native american run casino to billy-bob's country bar where billy-bob and maybe 2 other employees run the whole thing.

midnight Target · « **Reply #36 on:** June 28, 2006, 04:25:32 PM »

I see...

In CA no public bar or restaurant allows smoking, not because the patrons don't allow it, but because it is a hazardous environment for the employees. There was a bar in my town (recently went OOB) that allowed smoking because they had no employees. It was owner operated.

Curval · « **Reply #37 on:** June 28, 2006, 04:25:45 PM »

Ban smoking? Because it is dangerous? Driving is dangerous...maybe that should be banned? More people are killed annually on the roads than by second hand smoke. Ban cars. Yeah, that's the ticket.

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #38 on:** June 28, 2006, 04:27:50 PM »

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Originally posted by Curval
Ban smoking? Because it is dangerous? Driving is dangerous...maybe that should be banned? More people are killed annually on the roads than by second hand smoke. Ban cars. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Im gona invest in bycycles in the stock market game then.

xrtoronto · « **Reply #39 on:** June 28, 2006, 04:28:06 PM »

Ban pink shorts!:p

Bronk · « **Reply #40 on:** June 28, 2006, 04:32:52 PM »

Just to clarify the RI gambling establishments are NOT indian affiliated.

Yup these gov $ traps must have magical air that makes cigarette smoke null and void.

Funny how it's ok for the state to make $ and not the people.

Bronk

Bronk · « **Reply #41 on:** June 28, 2006, 04:35:07 PM »

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Originally posted by Curval
Ban smoking? Because it is dangerous? Driving is dangerous...maybe that should be banned? More people are killed annually on the roads than by second hand smoke. Ban cars. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Can't just ban the car they would just move to the next vehicle.
You have to ban the wheel , only way to be safe.

Bronk

Goth · « **Reply #42 on:** June 28, 2006, 05:56:09 PM »

Government intervention is like coitus interruption.

rpm · « **Reply #43 on:** June 28, 2006, 06:36:30 PM »

One 747 produces more toxins on takeoff than all of the cigarettes smoked in a day. Ban Boeing!

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #44 on:** June 28, 2006, 06:40:59 PM »

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Originally posted by Mustaine
so go eat your fish fry at your voluntary non-smoking estabilshment, and i'll go have mine at my local smoking allowed estabilshment.

wtf is so hard about that concept???

you want to come into my place, you live with it. you don't have the "right" to force you will upon anyone you wish. i want to try the fish at your place i have to not smoke while there.

i think alot of you non-smokers think people like me want to be allowed to light up wherever and whenever we want. NO. i want the business owner to have the right to choose if smoking should or should not be allowed. that is all. straight, to the point, simple. that's it.

If I went to your house. I wouldnt mind if you smoked. Its your house. You come to my house, you can smoke. Its a house, its meant to be enjoyed for all.

I guess that makes me a hypocrite.

EDIT: If there were kids around I wouldnt let you. Sorry.